Eric, when I started reading your April Fool's Day post, I didn't realize it was a spoof. (It probably took me longer than it should have for me to realize that.) When I initially clicked on it and read the headline, I gasped, and felt a wave of fear and angst. If I were to try to put into words what I was feeling, it'd be something like…
Eric, when I started reading your April Fool's Day post, I didn't realize it was a spoof. (It probably took me longer than it should have for me to realize that.) When I initially clicked on it and read the headline, I gasped, and felt a wave of fear and angst. If I were to try to put into words what I was feeling, it'd be something like: "Oh my God, he is courting fate. No, no, no!" I literally sat and prayed for him before I even began reading your post. I was so shaken that I felt angry at you for having written it. I felt like you were playing into his potential martyrdom when I realized the post was intended as a spoof. I have a dreadful feeling about this. I feel he knows he may be martyred and is almost courting this. I feel sick thinking about it.
As for this reading, it's amazingly powerful. I plan to listen to it again.
Truthbird, the purpose of my "satire" was to correct and teach. He is involved in an extremely complicated lie about gain of function, chimeric viruses, lab leaks and all of that -- he is functioning as a state actor. I've been engaging him on and off for a year on this issue, as have several of my friends. If you reread the piece you will see where I am trying to gently push him in the right direction. I knew this would be happening -- the candidacy -- for a while...yes he is courting fate...
Eric, I will reread your April Fool's Day post. I think I did understood what you were trying to do, when I read it on April 1, though. I was agnostic on the virus / no virus issue at that time, but since then I've been red-pilled. I thank you for your writing and talking about it repeatedly in your Substack essays and on your weekly Planet Waves podcast.
Do you think RFK Jr. is acting in bad faith, i.e. that he knows there never was a gain-of-function bioweapon / virus which was either intentionally or accidentally released? If not, I wonder if he has the courage to learn and to change his mind about this core issue issue at this point. As I ponder this, I realize why you emphasized in your reading yesterday that he's a political actor. Even if he were red-pilled about this, would he have the courage to say so publicly, and to change his fundamental rhetoric?
He is selling the "health freedom movement" down the river — into slavery. "Bad Faith" is way too kind. he knows what's happening. His position is closer to Fauci than anyone else. And everyone is following along.
This is so terribly, horribly, agonizingly disheartening. If one were extremely idealistic, one might try to rationalize it this way: He'll do whatever it takes to win the presidency, then, having won, he'll betray his handlers, and act as his heart and soul demand: in good faith to the truth. But how likely is that scenario? And were he to do this, what would happen? I think we all know.
Eric, when I started reading your April Fool's Day post, I didn't realize it was a spoof. (It probably took me longer than it should have for me to realize that.) When I initially clicked on it and read the headline, I gasped, and felt a wave of fear and angst. If I were to try to put into words what I was feeling, it'd be something like: "Oh my God, he is courting fate. No, no, no!" I literally sat and prayed for him before I even began reading your post. I was so shaken that I felt angry at you for having written it. I felt like you were playing into his potential martyrdom when I realized the post was intended as a spoof. I have a dreadful feeling about this. I feel he knows he may be martyred and is almost courting this. I feel sick thinking about it.
As for this reading, it's amazingly powerful. I plan to listen to it again.
Truthbird, the purpose of my "satire" was to correct and teach. He is involved in an extremely complicated lie about gain of function, chimeric viruses, lab leaks and all of that -- he is functioning as a state actor. I've been engaging him on and off for a year on this issue, as have several of my friends. If you reread the piece you will see where I am trying to gently push him in the right direction. I knew this would be happening -- the candidacy -- for a while...yes he is courting fate...
Eric, I will reread your April Fool's Day post. I think I did understood what you were trying to do, when I read it on April 1, though. I was agnostic on the virus / no virus issue at that time, but since then I've been red-pilled. I thank you for your writing and talking about it repeatedly in your Substack essays and on your weekly Planet Waves podcast.
Do you think RFK Jr. is acting in bad faith, i.e. that he knows there never was a gain-of-function bioweapon / virus which was either intentionally or accidentally released? If not, I wonder if he has the courage to learn and to change his mind about this core issue issue at this point. As I ponder this, I realize why you emphasized in your reading yesterday that he's a political actor. Even if he were red-pilled about this, would he have the courage to say so publicly, and to change his fundamental rhetoric?
He is selling the "health freedom movement" down the river — into slavery. "Bad Faith" is way too kind. he knows what's happening. His position is closer to Fauci than anyone else. And everyone is following along.
This is so terribly, horribly, agonizingly disheartening. If one were extremely idealistic, one might try to rationalize it this way: He'll do whatever it takes to win the presidency, then, having won, he'll betray his handlers, and act as his heart and soul demand: in good faith to the truth. But how likely is that scenario? And were he to do this, what would happen? I think we all know.